The Jackal of Pupunahue

José Misael Roldán Concha (30 June 1934 – ?), better known as The Jackal of Pupunahue , was a Chilean coal miner known for the brutal murder of a woman and five of her seven children while on probation for an earlier murder. Although he was originally sentenced to death, then-president Carlos Ibáñez del Campo granted him presidential clemency, essentially reducing his sentence to life in prison.

Biography Roldán Concha came from a poor family, being the 10th out of 14 siblings. He dropped out from school at 13 years of age and began working in agriculture and coal mining. Hours before the murder, Roldán had been at the police station of Antilhue to sign, as this was a condition of the probation. grabbing an iron bar on the way.

Aftermath The murder became known when Nora Gómez Díaz, whom Roldán believed to be dead, woke up following the attack, put out the fire that Roldán started, and reported the actions to local police, Later on, he admitted that alcoholism played a part, along with detailing how he felt an urge to abuse Díaz's corpse after he saw that she was not wearing underwear at the time of her death.

Upon hearing about this, the local community was outraged and demanded the death penalty, which he was later condemned to by the second court of Valdivia and upheld by the Supreme Court of Chile. However, then-President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo eventually got involved in the case, granting clemency to Roldán, whose sentence was then reduced to life imprisonment.

José Misael Roldán spent the rest of his life in prison without any parole benefits, where he eventually died. The house in which the 1957 murders occurred was later demolished and replaced with a bust honoring the six victims.